Tag Archives: Toronto

‘Denial’ is one of those well-meaning movies about an important subject that isn’t particularly good, but tends to get a free pass in awards season thanks to sincerity and presenting a positive social message. The movie really doe...

After an award-winning premiere at Cannes, writer/director Julia Ducournau’s debut feature ‘Raw’ apparently made a few audience members faint at the TIFF Midnight Madness screening. (At least, that’s the legend some whip-smart pub...

A mixture of searing historical drama and rip-roaring action adventure, ‘The Age of Shadows’ from director Kim Jee-woon (‘A Tale of Two Sisters’, ‘I Saw the Devil’) bursts off the screen with entertainment and intrigue. It’s eithe...

Thomas Vinterberg has never gotten the same level of international success or respect as his Dogme 95 co-founder Lars von Trier, which is a shame. Granted, he’s not a genius on the level of von Trier (who is?) but the filmmaker ha...

Crime movies can be tough. There have been so many that sometimes it feels like there are no themes left to explore. Music video director Adam Smith’s feature debut ‘Trespass Against Us’ attempts something new by diving into an un...

Walter Hill was one of the great pioneers of the American action movie in the late 1970s and early ’80s. Of course, as Hollywood tends to do, the master was spit out of the mainstream once his style of film went out of fashion. No...

‘Loving’ is one of those important historical dramas about groundbreaking folks who changed America. It’s also an incredibly intimate character study of two simple people uncertain of why their pure love could cause such wild cont...

‘American Honey’ is a tricky movie because most of its greatest strengths double down as its biggest weaknesses. The American debut from British filmmaker Andrea Arnold (‘Fish Tank‘) is a rambling road odyssey populated primarily ...

Even after his patented mockumentary style was co-opted by countless TV shows, there’s still only one Christopher Guest. His latest comedy, ‘Mascots’, serves up almost everything you could want from one of his hysterical and human...

‘The Handmaiden’ is a naughty film made by a naughty boy. It’s also a pretty damn clever, beautifully crafted and amusingly nasty one. As he proved in movies like ‘Oldboy’ and ‘Lady Vengeance’, director Park Chan-wook has a knack ...

It takes a lot of guts for a movie star to transition into directing. Although landing that debut gig will likely be far easier than it would be for anyone lacking experience, the pressure is high and folks will be rooting for fai...

Denis Villeneuve continues his transition from Canadian indies to sprawling Hollywood fables that retain his masterful style and personal touch. After last year’s searing drug war thriller ‘Sicario’, the director has gone all sci-...

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